Deepak Chopra

   
Artist: Deepak Chopra

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 Serenity - Ambient Meditation

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Dubbed "the poet-prophet of alternative medication" in the pages of Time, Deepak Chopra domed to outside fame at the van of the self-help publishing detonation, later expanding his multimedia system imperium to include a serial publication of new age-themed albums recorded in quislingism with musicians including Eurythmics' Dave Stewart. Born in New Delhi in 1947, Chopra was the son of preeminent Indian cardiologist Krishran Chopra. He of necessity followed his father's footsteps and graduated from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1968. Upon relocating to the U.S. iI old age by and by, Chopra interned at a New Jersey hospital before chronic his studies at Burlington, MA's Lahey Clinic and the University of Virginia Hospital. A board-certified practitioner of interior medicine and endocrinology, Chopra taught at Tufts University and Boston University Schools of Medicine earlier he was appointed foreman of staff at the New England Memorial Hospital. He too established his have private endocrinology praxis, just following a return trip to New Delhi he found himself more and more at odds with the guiding principles of Western medicine, embracement rather the image that good wellness represents more than the mere absence of physical disease. In 1985, subsequently coming together transcendental meditation founder and guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Chopra resigned his NEMH position to focusing on holistic medication, casting his set with Ayurveda, an ancient Indian organisation of natural healing, and foundation the Massachusetts-based American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine.In 1989, Chopra published his number one record, Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine, combining elements of Hinduism and Western science to posit the body as a "web of intelligence operation" that can fight off disease and senescence via meditation and clean living founded the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine. After ripping with the transcendental meditation sect in 1993 amid allegations the Maharishi was attempting to control his writing and public speaking engagements, Chopra published his breakthrough campaign, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old, merchandising more than C,000 copies the day after his appearance on television's Oprah Winfrey Show. More than a dozen like-minded self-help bestsellers followed, among them The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing. In 1995 Chopra founded the California-based Chopra Center for Well Being, fundamentally abandoning all guise of clinical practice by declining to even lend oneself for a state medical licence. Despite pointed criticisms of his beliefs and practices -- as good as the hypocrisy of admonishing physicalism while living in a multi-million-dollar mansion house and driving a Jaguar -- Chopra remained an immensely pop digit, and after releasing a series of lucrative audiobooks, in 1998 he issued the album A Gift of Love, recruiting celebrity pals like Madonna and Goldie Hawn to read classical Indian poetry over Middle Eastern-inspired support tracks. Three years later Chopra teamed with longtime protagonist Dave Stewart for Grow Younger, Live Longer.

Employers must pay for workplace music

It has been estimated that over half a million businesses in the UK are playing music illegally, and most don't even know it.

Whenever music is played publicly, basically anywhere outside the home, a licence is required.

For businesses, if they are playing music which staff or customers can hear, they must pay the Performing Rights Society (PRS) for a licence.

By law, if you play copyrighted music in public, you need to have permission from the writers of it - money is paid to the artist via the PRS' licence.

According to BBC Newsbeat, many businesses do not realise that even playing the radio at work could land them a hefty fine.

Even taxi drivers need a licence if their passengers can hear the music they're playing.

As previously reported on NME.COM, the PRS have begun legal proceedings against Lancashire Police for playing music in their gym and over phones without the appropriate licence.

Nicola Roberts Robbed of �2,000 Worth Of Clothes

Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts has been robbed of �2,000 worth of her designer clothes.

The 'No Good Advice' singer -- who recently split from boyfriend Carl Davies -- reportedly called in police after a package from posh online store Net-APorter went missing.

A source tells Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper, "Nicola had two deliveries couriered to her hotel in Manchester but only one, containing a handbag from Harrods, got to her.

"The other was signed for but mysteriously disappeared. Nicola was distraught as it contained a gift for her mum.

"Police were called in to question hotel security but her stuff is still missing."

Meanwhile, after completing their sell-out tour, the girl group -- who shot to fame on TV talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002 -- return to the studios on Monday to start work on a new album.

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HBO's Polanski film causes dispute

Did judge insist that any court hearing be televised?

Did the Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over a 1997 meeting that would have paved the way for Roman Polanski to return to the U.S. insist that any court hearing -- which would have ended the now-30-year-old case in which the director pleaded guilty to unlawful intercourse with a minor -- be televised?


That is the new dispute that has broken out in the wake of HBO's Monday night airing of Marina Zenovich's documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired."


The docu, which played Sundance and Cannes, originally concluded with a statement that an agreement had been reached that would have disposed of the case without further jail time, but the judge insisted the hearing be televised. Because of that condition, Polanski, fearing a media circus, did not return.


Calling that assertion "a complete fabrication," court officials Monday called on HBO to change the docu's final wording. The version that aired that night said the court insisted only that the hearing be held in open court.


But on Wednesday, Douglas Dalton, who represented Polanski, and Roger Gunson, the former deputy district attorney who prosecuted the director, issued a joint statement contradicting that version. They said they met in 1997 with Judge Larry Paul Fidler, a new judge on the case, who was willing to end Polanski's probation without further jail time as long as the hearing was televised.


Dalton recalled that "Fidler would require television coverage at the proposed hearing," while Gunson said "television coverage (was) discussed at the meeting."


"It is our shared view that Monday's false and reprehensible statement by the Los Angeles Superior Court continues their inappropriate handling of the Polanski case," they said.


Richard Doyle, director of the District Attorney's Specialized Prosecutions Bureau, rejects that version of events. "There was no requirement that the hearing be televised," he said, adding a new caveat that the promise of no further jail time was not guaranteed. "While additional prison time would be unlikely if Mr. Polanski's conduct has been favorable over the last three decades, prison always remains a possibility."

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Rhythm & Hues sets up Malaysian shop

VFX & animation facility also has facilities in India

Rhythm & Hues Studios, the Los Angeles-based VFX & animation facility whose credits include the upcoming "The Incredible Hulk" from Marvel Studios and "The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" from Universal, has signed an agreement with the government of Malaysia to set up operations in Kuala Lumpur.


The company also maintains two bases in India, with facilities in Mumbai and Hyderabad.


R&H will open in Malaysia this year in temporary space while a building is constructed that would allow the company to grow over time to accommodate about 200 staffers. The construction is expected to take less than two years.


Staffers from Los Angeles and India will travel to Kuala Lumpur to train young local talent.


Earlier this year, the company's work on "The Golden Compass" earned it an Oscar in visual effects.


Projects in production include "Land of the Lost," "Cirque du Freak" and "State of Play." The studio is also in the process of developing its own creative properties.

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‘Lost’: See the Alternate Endings

This morning Good Morning America showcased the two alternate endings the producers of Lost filmed in an attempt to foil spoilers. It didn't work, but the alternate endings are pretty cool to look at. Who else could've been in that coffin? Who else could have starred in season five's Weekend at Bernie's remake? And did anyone else think the second one was Steve Carell until Robin Roberts shouted the character's name? We guess we're just not used to seeing these characters all cleaned up.

Brian Wilson to release new album in September

Brian Wilson is set to release his first album in four years this September.

'That Lucky Old Sun', a concept album about the former Beach Boys star's childhood in south California, will be released on September 1.

The album, featuring 11 tracks, a vocal excerpt and four narrative pieces written by 'Smile' collaborator Van Dyke Parks, was first performed at London's Royal Festival Hall in September 2007.

'That Lucky Old Sun' is the first album of new work from Wilson since 2004's 'Gettin' In Over My Head'.

The singer and songwriter also released a reworked version of 'Smile' in 2004, a 'teenage symphony to God' that was left unreleased and unfinished in 1967.




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